Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Eastry Union, Kent, 1861
In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Brenchley | 7 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Thomas Hook | 24 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Thomas Jordan | 5 | 0 | Idiot | workh. school. |
Edward Jordan | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Elizabeth Jane Jordan | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Thomas Curling | 10 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Ann Hoile | 24 | 0 | Intellect slightly impaired | no. |
John Hall | 24 | 0 | Blind 30 years | no. |
Harriot Knight | 6 | 0 | Intellect slightly impaired | no. |
Margaret Lemon | 9 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Mary Minter | 10 | 0 | Lame | no. |
William Norris | 8 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Thomasine Drury | 17 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Harriot Spain | 15 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
James Shroesbury | 9 | 0 | Crippled hands | no. |
Stephen Walker | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Goble | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Ann Shilling | 6 | 0 | Weakly constitution | no. |
Samuel Casswell | 10 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Peter Richard Casswell | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Kemp | 12 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
John Eastone | 8 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Jehoiakim Capp | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Thomas Huxstep | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Ladd | 20 | 0 | Impaired intellect | no. |
William Dixon | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Harriot Arnold | 5 | 0 | Considered by medical officer unfit for service. | no. |
Ann Finch | 25 | 0 | Idiot | workh. school. |
Elizabeth Page | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Henry Nash | 24 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Thomas Pettman | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Wrake | 11 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
William Mills | 7 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
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